As Spain’s flood death toll rises, authorities under fire for warning system failure | DW News
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The death toll from flash flooding in Spain has risen to 155. This, as the country begins three days of mourning. On Thursday Spain’s King Felipe warned that the emergency is not over yet. The eastern regions of Murcia and Valencia were hit the hardest. The region saw heavy rain after a ‘cold drop’ triggered huge storms. Cold drops are when a cold Atlantic low-pressure system collides with warm Mediterranean air. We spoke to DW Correspondent Jan-Philip Scholz on the ground in Valencia, to Hanna Cloke, professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading, and to DW’s Chief Climate Reporter Louise Osborne.
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How did it fail? Was there even a warning system in the first place? Assuming that there were one the level of flood damage was totally unprecedented.
In November, I'm comfortably outside wearing a T-shirt in Germany.Yet, people will rather believe in three-eyed aliens than accept the reality of thermodynamics. That's what happens when you skip physics class in school 😂
The reason why is because goggle Elijah system head of that department said don't tell them
boo hoo
Come on, we already surpassed 1.5C last year, that ship already gone
Now, people should be prepared for 2C
We are slaves to buisnesses and politics….we are treated this way
This is so sad, so many are responsible but are not speaking. Similar situation happened here on Bosnia and Herzegovina only 25 days before here. I hope there will be a solution soon. My prayers go to all who have lost their loved ones and properties.
But he said it wasn’t raining how can they be a flood? That’s probably why they didn’t take it seriously.
I am not so sure that this was a ‘natural’ catastrophe. There is a lot of important information that is not being discussed by the media and political class.
leonor failed
Prayers of Strength n Peace to our extended Spanish families from India.
How many peoplee have been died so far in europe or lost their love ones, home and so on? How many people since 2002? How fast is the force of floods increasng next to the increasing number of greenhouse gases? Europe have to stay together! We need a helping force combining our armys, rescue services and volunteers.
Does this happen every year in south Spain With high Waters.
Serious tragedy . Best of luck with prayers to the Spanish people from usa
After and before 2021, they have broken many dams in Spain and 500 dams in Europe to restore nature. The government knows if you break all the dams, all the water will flow into the country and they want to restore the rivers and then you will get all those floods. It is a World Economic Forum policy that the government implements. So corrupt.
Tsunami alike….
This flood was induced
because of Spain’s position/action on Palestine.
Strength And Love, thank you.
The central government doesn't care about the regions. For them all the regions could burned to the ground and they wouldn't lift a finger.
And it is ridiculous to keep assigning these events to "climate change" when they happen periodically. They even have a name since they happen for centuries.
Digging own grave
The breeze, the drizzle and
The balmy days have forsaken us forever.
Why have they deserted us so?
What on earth did cause this?
Torrent came and trampled down
The drizzle, while tempest blew the
Breeze away, balmy days were
Burnt away by the blistering heat.
Felled the woods, fuelled your gluttony
Filled the sky with smoke and gas
Furthered your fortune and ego
Furnace is what you made the planet
The heat of your haught awaken
The watergiant in the poles,
Thaw from slumber are the glaciers
The oceans swell, islands are guzzled.
Come what may, will achieve
Carbon neutral, you pledge
Won't go beyond a degree and a half
Which turned out to be a lot of hot air.
Can't take even a decimal more
Care to come out of the hole
Don't dig your own grave
Discretion is the need of the hour.
Dr Aqib
Trump will sort it out
The system didn’t fail. There was no warning because this is Biblical.
God gave a warning a long time ago.
Are there Questions whether this Flood was Engineered, similar to the Florida Hurricane?!?
Spain has cancelled/destroyed up to 200 dams. Maybe not very smart…
I was there in the most affected area. Our company sent us home at 14:00 as we had Red alert due to heavy rain warnings. The mobile Phone warning arrived at 20:00, but we had warnings. When I got home, I talked to a car dealer in Sedaví that didn't know anything about the Red Alert and was later sent home at 19:00. The car dealer building does not exist anymore.
This was not the case everywhere, in the basin of the river Magro they were perfectly warned, they were sent home, they knew that the river was going to overflow, they were warned about the bridges…
The areas around the rivers were perfectly handled, we are used to it, we have had many tragic floodings over the years.
In Albal, Catarroja, Paiporta,…where the tragedy has happened we had the heavy rain red alert, but there was no rain at all. The tsunami came through the narrow ravines and destroyed everything in minutes.
The flooding risk down of the ravines south of Valencia warning failed clearly.
Terrible days. I am going there now to try to help.
Some people have trouble understanding what a flash flood is, by comments I have seen repeatedly on social media, that people should have gotten away from the flood. Lots of people were just driving and were hit by a torrent of water appearing suddenly. That's why it's called flash flooding not normal flooding.
We were there when it was happening. We were due to drive from Valencia to Toledo at 10 am on the 29th when we left there was very heavy wind in Valencia but an hour into our drive we were in the middle of the storm. Very heavy rain, strong wind and lightning. On the side of the highway we could see the water rushing past. The GPS directed us to leave the highway and take side streets to avoid traffic, thankfully we didn’t do that and stayed on the highway otherwise we could have been swept away. We are safe but it was the most frightening experience. We live in Singapore and are used to seeing heavy rain but I have never seen a flood ever. My heart goes out to all the people that were affected by this disaster.
El PP es una funeraria y le siguen votando
are you expect government to be all-knowing omnipotent entity?
no one can foresee any of this…
European sleep walking towards all sorts of disasters…
All of us who were born in Valencia know the phenomenon of the DANA, which has already cost more than 158 lives and counting, due to not warning the population in time.
The situation is clear. The work carried out after the floods of 1957, which was built with taxes that were only paid in Valencia, to build the new channel of the Turia river, has withstood the onslaught for the moment. It was one metre away from being overwhelmed. It has a capacity of 5000 cubic metres per second.
The problem comes from the Pollo ravine, which runs through the south of Valencia. Affecting 120,000 people without electricity, for example. The criticism I make is because in a small town in the province of Albacete, called Letur, where 6 people disappeared. 150 specialist personal were mobilized and in Valencia only 1000 UME troops were mobilized to assist more than a million people. Now, after 3 days, 500 more soldiers have been mobilized, this is a disgrace.
On TV they say that access is not possible because the roads are closed. Where is the Ministry of Transport and its personnel? Where is the army with the engineering means they have.
It is a disgrace of the politicians we have, they do not know how to do their job and that is causing more pain and stupor in the affected population.
natural??… and no alarms was on purpose!..
From valencia,We have regular flash floods their called gotafria here so when this storm started we all just believed it was another gotafria.
PM.Sanchez turned his back on Israel.. that s why.. Genesis 12:3
Screw climate change. DARPA !
The warning system seemed to be hit and miss, I got multiple messages last week with warnings, yet yesterday I received another 3 days too late
Opvallend dat achter de presentator het beeld van een kruis in de lucht te zien is, iets wat op weermanipulatie duidt
Is it really climate change that is to blame, or is it geo-engineering?
In US WITH HELENE THEY GOT 250 VICTIMS IN 3 STATES FLORIDA NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE!!!!!!IN SPAIN IN JUST A LITTLE CITY…VALENCIA THEY GOT THE SAME AMOUNT OF DEADS AND CLIMING!!!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE…SUPER REDICULUS SPANISH ""AUTHORITYS,""""
Global warming?. This has always happened in this part of the word. There was a system built in the late fifties to alleviate this extreme flooding, and has been purposely destroyed. Liars all of you.
Because the responsible persons are politicians and not experts
스페인 분들 힘내세요 ㅠㅠ
Something went wrong here, and it wasn't climate change. There has been cold drops and floods here since times in memorial
4:03 – you invite a scientist to speak only to put her name and country wrong
There are were no any warnings in Valencia until the flood came. But in general in Spain people ar not aware of the ecological situation in the planet: they are drinking coffees in the cafeteria without switching engines of there cars and lorries on the streets! It’s shocking 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬The nature tough the lesson, destroying this cars, but people will never learn:(
A fascist, Franco, saved 10s of thousands with his canal systems he did in Valencia after 1957, today. But shhhhh..
We too live in Valencia proper. The news reports can be confusing because Valencia is both the greater region as well as the capital city of the region. Similar to New York, NY. Our son returned from a trip overseas on Tuesday, just a few hours before the airport was flooded and shut down, stranding 1,500 travellers overnight. Authorities were unprepared because a flood like this hasn't occurred in a century. It caused triple the casualties of the previous largest flood back in 1957. The aftermath of that disaster compelled the government to redirect the Turia River, which bisects Valencia, to flow south of the city. It's mainly in the south where the majority of the deaths occurred. Whether one action led to the other time will tell. Another reason citizens were unprepared is because it wasn't even raining in many areas hit with the flash floods.
The fact nature is being oppressed and not being allowed to grow is causing a lot of storms. We are damaging natural flood barriers and natural foundations due to not having enough plant life. If you allow plants to grow even help them, you will see natural disasters change.
Pedro Sánchez is a very corrupt president. He is a narcissistic psychopath and is only interested in stealing from the Spanish people.